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Show CLAIMS HSKE IS A BANDIT Southern Pacific Agent Swears Out Warrant Against Fashionable Fash-ionable Burlingame Man. IS ALLEGED HOLDUP ! Former Member of Detroit. County Club and Son of Shoe Manufacturer. San Francisco. Nov. 19. In spite Of the fact that Edward A Flske. I man-about town and householder of Burlingame. a fashionable suburb established last night what seemed a satisfactory alibi, a Southern Pacific Pa-cific agent left this morning for Martinez. Contra Costa county, to I swear out a warrant charging that , Flske is the bandit who last Friday night robbed five passengers and ! five trainmen in the rear Pullman of the San Francisco Limited, near ' t Port GoBta. Piske will then be taken from the I ; ctly Jail, where he Is still held as a I suspect, to Port Costa, where positive posi-tive Identification by passengers and , trainmen will he sought. Flske is a fashionably dressed, I easy spoken, assured young man of T4. Ho was arrested last night a j he stepped into the side entrance ol I a hotel, where detectives were wait 1 , ing for him. Previously Conductor Watson o! the San Francisco Limited had pick-: pick-: ed him out of a crowd as the man j j who had robbed his train. Fiske was ! able to produce signed chwks show--; ing that ho had occupied a private I room in a restaurant from 3 o'clock Friday afternoon until 10 o'clock that ! night Mall Clerks Unable to Identify. Three mail clerks of the Shorn 1 Fine Limited on the coast line of I the same road who were cowed at the pistol point last Monday nigh' while a masked highwayman went 1 through the mall, also were unable I to Identify Flske. His wife says he spent that evening at home Fiske attributes his difficulties to I his mother-in-law. Mrs. Mary ('. W ebber, formerly of Iona, Mich , now in a sanltorium here. The Fiekes live near the Bnrlin-' Bnrlin-' game Country club. Mrs Webber Complained to the Burlingame police that her son-in-law was mistreating his wife and advised them to look up his record. Fiske said his father was W J Fiske, a retired shoe manufacturer. I of Detroit. For seven years he was president of tbe Phoenix Perfumery : company of Detroit. In addillou to the hold up of the I two limited trains, railroad detec- ( j tlves are Investigating the robbery of the crew of a freight train in Oakland, Oak-land, November 13, and of a passen ! ger train between Burlingame. and San Francisco. October 14, when the mail car was looted. On the night 1 of the freight train robbery the conductor con-ductor of a suburban electric train also was held up In each case a single robber did the work Rewards aggregating S'J.jUu have been offered by the railroad com pany for the capture of the robber |